- Elizabeth Walton: ...ississ... ,
- John-Boy Walton: You trying to spell Mississippi?
- Elizabeth Walton: I know how to spell it. I just don't know when to stop!
- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] While the Great Depression was a time of constant trial and struggle on Waltons Mountain, those were in some ways, easier, more simple years, for we knew what the challenge was and what we had to do to meet it. But one time in 1937, when my brother Jason faced an unusual situation, he found that the answers were not quite as simple as they seemed.